Legion

 Legion by Brandon Sanderson   368 pages

This was a fun story.    A twist on schizophrenia, multiple-personalities, ghosts.   The story is about Stephen Leeds.   Stephen is this super brainiac who can learn things within a few hours of reading about them.   He consumes the information then mentally sorts it and attributes control over it to what Stephen terms his aspects.   His aspects are separate characters Stephen imagines who are his consultants on whatever it is he is working on.   These aspects, so real they are nearly tangible to Stephen.   He not only talks to them and consults with them as each holds all the information he has taken in compartmentalized in a personality that represents that information to him but these aspects (of his personality) also go with him on his adventures.   He is a lot like Sherlock Holmes so is hired often to locate people, things, etc. for large corporations.   He is alwo fabulously wealthy and hires cabs to go pick up his aspects around town and he often pays for additonal seating and hotel rooms while away when his aspects attend with him.   It is a very unexpected, unusual but pleasing book and I think anyone would enjoy this read though I suggest middle schoolers on up as the concept of schizophrenia might be beyond anyone younger.   Good book, glad I read it.

 - Shirley J.